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Curated research library of TV news clips regarding the NSA, its oversight and privacy issues, 2009-2014

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Primary curation & research: Robin Chin, Internet Archive TV News Researcher; using Internet Archive TV News service.

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Saxby Chambliss
U.S.Senator R-Georgia, Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Chambliss: Secondly, there's another part of their recruiting that is even more dangerous than asking young men and women to come to Syria to fight for ISIL. They want people to go into the parliament in Canada and start killing people. They want people to walk the streets of New York and pull out a gun or a hatchet or whatever it may be and start killing people. If we eliminate this program, and that's basically what the Leahy amendment does, then we're going to take a tool away from our intelligence committee s not going to allow them to be able to interrupt and disrupt those types of terrorist attacks.
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Saxby Chambliss
U.S.Senator R-Georgia, Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Chambliss: But let me just tell you what's going to happen if this amendment comes to the floor and should happen to pass. Today the metadata that is collected by the N.S.A. can be accessed by 22 individuals, 22. That means there's an opportunity for leaks to occur or for individual privacy rights to be breached by 22 people. If this amendment ever became law, all of a sudden all of the telecoms are going to be holding this metadata information as opposed to the N.S.A. holding it. All of those telecoms have thousands of employees, lots of whom have access -- will have access to this metadata. So instead of having the potential for 22 people to breach the privacy rights of American citizens, all of a sudden you're going to have thousands of opportunities for the privacy rights of Americans to be breached.
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Saxby Chambliss
U.S.Senator R-Georgia, Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Chambliss: Do we need to modify it? You bet. And Senator Feinstein and I did a good job of that considering 10 amendments within our committee, voting on all 10 of them, some of them passed, some of them didn't, and the bill came out of our committee on a bipartisan vote -- bipartisan vote. This amendment of Mr. Leahy has not even gone to the judiciary committee to give the members of the judiciary committee the opportunity to review it, to file amendments on it, to debate it in committee, and vote on it. That's not the way this institution has ever worked and it's not the way it should work here in a lame-duck session with time running out and particularly on this controversial and sensitive and important program as the 215 FISA amendment program.
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